The Joy of Tech sums up my feelings about XP on Macs

#18 Kevin

You really need to open your eyes and stop living in a dreamland. Did you read any other comments?

"If you really need to run some PC specific piece of software at home, your boss is overworking you."

Typical Macfanboy comment. Try and get out and talk to people. Go to a corporate office; go speak to a network admin...anything but please don't post comments like that.

To Jim Huber: It's already been done. Every version of OS X that has been Intel compatible has been cracked and run on a PC.

As for what I think about running XP on a Mac: It is the worst abomination, and ranks up there with human gene manipulation , Iran having a reactor, and North Korean scientists faking their lab results. It shouldn't have to be banned because it should be so obviously WRONG!

For those that "need" PC compatibility at home because of a job: I worked for a number of years with a PC at work and a Mac at home and can't come up with a solid reason why you would need any more compatibility than is already available in OS X and Microsoft's services for Mac. Use a remote access protocol that both computers can use and leave it at that. If you really need to run some PC specific piece of software at home, your boss is overworking you.

So funny!

I love OS X

To ask the obvious that no one else seems to have thought of:
When is someone going to make OS X MacTel run on a PC box?

I used ot keep a PC around for only one thing... The ongoing process of ripping of my CD collection to FLAC and MP3 (VBR) using the (wastly superior to iTunes) EAC in Windows!

With my new Intel Mac mini I can dual boot into Windows for that purpose, and enjoy OSX for everything else :) Now I'm finally able to sell my PC - anyone interested?

@11

Ever used Ekahau software? How about Cobb StreetTuner? Or VMWare console?

No? It shows. All of those are Windows ONLY applications that I simply HAVE to have. There is no Mac analog (they are wifi analysis software, subaru tuning software and sysadmin software, in that order). If you need to run them, you NEED windows. End of story.

Sure, for email, web 95% of stuff out there, there is a mac analog. But for that 5%, well, dualbooting (hopefully eventually VMware or Darwine) is the best option.

What I see in the cartoon is the two guys watching the Windows screen and and thinking in endless of possibilities

The Joy of Tech is the least funny comic I have ever seen. EVER.

It's not that I hate Windows or anything, I just don't understand the huge need for it. I've only been using a Mac for about a year and I remember very well being worried right before the switch about the ability to run Windows-only applications. I had researched everything about Virtual PC and was even ready to buy it, then I noticed that with OS X, I have no real reason to use Windows anymore. So to clarify, it's not the I hate Windows, it's that I don't understand why people need to dual boot the two OS's

"I find it funny that the only people questioning why someone would want Windows XP on their Mac "when OS X is right there(!!!)" are pure mac users. The people who really want Windows and OS X on one machine are people who need both. It's funny that mac users who ask that can't open their eyes to what's happening."

No, we just don't like endorsing and supporting a company that we really dislike (I try to stay away from the word 'hate'), not to mentions that it competes against Apple.